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Senate Approves $600M for Border Patrol, Surveillance Drones
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn one of their last acts before a summer recess, U.S. senators approved a $600 million package to beef up security along the Mexican border with 1,500 additional guards and unmanned surveillance drones. The bill, which passed on a voice vote, would be financed by raising fees on foreign-based personnel companies that bring skilled workers into the United States, often from India. The House of Representatives passed similar legislation, and could take up the Senate bill when it comes back from its summer recess for a one-day session next week, the Associated Press said. Sen. Charles Schumer ...
Congress Considers Quarter-Trillion in New Spending This Week
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith the federal deficit already projected to hit $1.37 trillion for 2010, Congress will consider two proposals this week that would take that number as much as a quarter of a trillion dollars higher. The bills -- a package of tax cuts and safety-net provisions in the House, and an emergency spending bill to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- are already facing bipartisan opposition, both because of the programs being funded and the sheer dollar amounts that lawmakers are being asked to approve in an election year. (And it's an election year that has already seen several ...
Facebook Launches Page for Congress
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyMembers of Congress can now be followed on Facebook, after the social networking site launched a page devoted to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The "Congress on Facebook" page went up this week and provides quick links to individual senators and representatives. Constituents can keep track of how their elected officials are using the site and even get alerts about bills coming up for votes. "We hope this will encourage even more use of social technologies like Facebook by politicians and government agencies to interact with and serve their constituents," Tim Sparapani, Facebook's public policy ...
Goldman Sachs' 'Fabulous Fab' Denies Fraud Charges at Hearing
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyFabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs executive recently charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission, denied all accusations against him during an appearance before a U.S. Senate subcommittee Tuesday. "I deny categorically the SEC's allegations and I will defend myself in court against this false claim," he told the senators. Tourre has worked at Goldman since 2001 and described to the panel his role in investing for "sophisticated financial institutions" to manage their credit and market risks. "For the average person, the utility of these products may not be obvious," he said. ...
The Gridiron Dinner: Schmoozing Newsies
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyAt Saturday night's 125th annual Gridiron Dinner -- meaning the first one took place two centuries ago in 1885 -- there were three speakers: An ex-president, who seemed thrilled to be back in Washington doing stand-in, stand-up comedy, and a Republican and a Democratic senator who were just a wee bit raunchy. Bill Clinton, who spoke best and last, arrived late because he'd spent part of Saturday on the phone lobbying wavering Democrats on health care. "So tell the truth guys, do you miss me?" he asked more than 600 media heavies, politicians, consultants, business leaders and diplomats ...
The Health Battles That Won't Die: Lieberman, Taxes, Abortion and (Oh, Yeah!) the House
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid showed just how ugly legislating can get on Monday night, when he called the members of his exhausted, fractured caucus together for an emergency meeting to discuss health reform. Once inside the large room in the Capitol, he gave them a reality check and a choice. First, the reality check: The only people keeping the Democrats from passing health care reform were other Democrats. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, had announced the day before that he would filibuster the bill if it contained a Medicare expansion, while a ...
McCaskill and Cantor aTwitter Over Speed vs. Common Sense
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyOver at Politico's Arena, Pejman Yousefzadeh has written a biting and concise summary of what hard lessons we are all learning or are bound to learn from the events surrounding the stimulus package. There are a great many things that we are going to learn about the lack of efficacy inherent in Keynesian stimulus efforts. But among other things, we ought to learn--and likely will, once the full implications of this farcical stimulus exercise are known--that rushing exceedingly complicated legislation is a ridiculously bad idea. This is absolutely right. As Yousefzadeh notes, the question of ...
Obama Using Law Enforcement to Intimidate?
By Dave - Politics DailySpringfield News-Leader:Gov. Matt Blunt and Republicans are accusing Barack Obama's campaign of assembling a "truth squad" with law enforcement officials to intimidate Obama critics from speaking out against the Democratic presidential candidate.Yet a top Republican National Committee official admits the Democratic prosecutors from across Missouri "haven't specifically said" they would use their prosecutorial powers on Obama's behalf.From the Blunt statement: "St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, ...
Obama Surrogate Attacks McCain's Age, Cancer
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAppearing on This Week with George Stephanopolous today, prominent Obama supporter Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that Americans should be "uncomfortable" with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as Sen. John McCain's Vice-President because of McCain's advanced age and history of cancer. McCaskill was answering a question about Palin's experience when she veered into an attack on McCain's past health issues and age."[I am] uncomfortable with anyone, regardless of gender, that is going to be vice president to one of the oldest presidents we've ever had that has never met a world leader.I think what ...
Does Hillary Even Think Gas Tax Cut Will Work?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn Thursday's Clinton campaign conference call, Phil Singer was unable to name a single expert who agrees that the gas tax holiday is a good idea. Now, the Obama campaign has released statements from one of Hillary's newly declared superdelegates, North Carolina Governor Mike Easley, that show the Governor opposing gas tax holidays.Then, on today's Obama conference call, Senator Claire McCaskill had this exchange with me:Tommy Christopher: (In reference to Singer's response on the experts)Do you think there's something to that, that a leader has to do the right thing sometimes, even if the ...
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